After unexpectedly becoming a single dad,  Rowan uproots his life from bright Cape Town to move to a tight knit small town in South Africa where, with the help of his grandmother, he has a shot of giving his son the best life possible. But when he meets Delilah, a secret-former-heiress, she becomes determined to give him the support he needs by introducing him to a group of fellow single dads. 

This book definitely wasn’t what I was expecting. I want to say that I loved Delilah, and her brother, Matt! I really enjoyed both of them as characters. Delilah reminded me a lot of myself, but much more adorable! And I also enjoyed the single dads club aspect of the book too! That was fun & I enjoyed those characters as well.

However, my main complaint with this book is that I hated Rowan & I did not root for the romance. She liked him so much, but he didn’t like her for most of the novel. He only thought of her two ways: lust & “ooo she can help me out”. She was constantly doing sweet things for him and I felt like he used her, and she allowed that. He was just horny and a user. He was more concentrated on parenting and past trauma from his childhood, which is understandable, but why was this a romance if he wasn’t thinking about her romantically?? This would’ve been better if it was marketed as a contemporary about him and his parenting journey with a romantic subplot. He was also just incredibly selfish when it came to her and he had a very judgmental moment in regard to her that rubbed me the wrong way. Overall, she deserved so much better. This also wasn’t as lighthearted as I thought it’d be. It’s filled with thoughts of self loathing, again understandable, but definitely not the tone I was expecting.

Overall, I just really didn’t enjoy this book as much as I thought I would. But if there are books following other characters that I actually liked, I might check those out.

Thank you to Montlake and NetGalley for this arc. All opinions are my own.

TW: past parental neglect